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WEBIn Memoriam: Coe A. Whittern. July 13, 2024. Coe was born in Peru, Indiana on April 3, 1946, to Charles (Keith) and Helen Whittern. He moved to Unalaska as a Methodist missionary child at the age of 3. When he was 11 years old his father and youngest brother drowned in a boating accident. Shortly after, his mother moved to Michigan to be closer ...
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WEBAug 31, 2024 · Board members from the Resource Development Council toured landmarks around town, including processing plants and city facilities. The KUCB Newsroom provides newscasts Monday through Thursday at noon and 5 PM on KUCB Radio. You can find many of our local news stories here.
Now A Museum, This USSR Submarine Base Was Built To Endure …
WEBJul 21, 2018 · The base is now a museum and Tarariyev, its director. "When we went out to sea, we took nuclear warheads on board and were ready to use them if ordered to," he said. Then, after 15 years of service, he saw the Soviet Union fall apart — and with it, its mighty military machine. Tarariyev says he had tears in his eyes when the last submarine ...
NOAA takes temperature of the Bering Sea in annual Bottom …
WEBJul 12, 2022 · How cold is the water in the Bering Sea? That’s what a group of researchers from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration wants to know. NOAA is currently out in the Aleutian Islands running their annual Eastern Bering Sea Bottom Trawl Survey. They've been running annual surveys since the 1970s, mainly to collect data on the distribution and abundance of bottom-dwelling species ...
The Aleutians have a rat problem. Scientists are trying to solve it
WEBMar 10, 2022 · Scientists are trying to solve it. A U.S. Fish and Wildlife vehicle on Adak Island promoting rat eradication. For millions of years, birds lived nearly predator free in the Aleutian Islands. The volcanic archipelago stretches westward for 1,200 miles from the Alaska Peninsula, dotting a border between the North Pacific Ocean and Bering Sea.
NTSB: The F/V Destination Sank After Accumulating Ice In Heavy
WEBJul 16, 2018 · A crab boat that sank in the Bering Sea last winter likely capsized after it became coated in hundreds of thousands of pounds of ice. That's the conclusion of a report released last week by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB).. As KUCB's Laura Kraegel reports, the findings shed new light on the loss of the fishing vessel Destination and its six crew members.
Coast Guard medevacs fisherman pinned by crab pot - KUCB
WEBOct 20, 2021 · The Coast Guard command center in Juneau received a call from the fishing boat Patricia Lee at about 4 p.m. requesting a medevac after one of their crew members “sustained serious injuries to his pelvic region” after being pinned by a crab pot. A Coast Guard MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crew from Air Station Kodiak hoisted the …
The Case of The Vanishing Seals: An Alaskan Island Mystery
WEBFeb 29, 2016 · Chapter 1. An Amazing Disaster. From a viewing blind in the middle of a seal rookery on Alaska's remote Pribilof Islands, it can be hard to fathom this place once holding vastly more life than it does now. Untold thousands of chubby brown bodies drape over boulders and sprawl across the tundra into the distance: northern fur seals.
Sand Point Loses Half Of Police Force And Head Of Public Works
WEBJul 2, 2020 · KSDP. Nearly half of Sand Point's police force is leaving the department, according to city officials. The 950-person island community — located about 550 miles southwest of Anchorage in the eastern portion of the Aleutian Chain — has a five-person police department that rotates into the community on a two week on, two week off basis.
The eruption near Tonga was so powerful you could hear it in Alaska
WEBJan 17, 2022 · Courtesy of CIRA at Colorado State University. An eruption of an underwater volcano near Tonga, which triggered a tsunami that was seen throughout the Pacific. In Alaska, people reported hearing the eruption several hours before the tsunami made it to shore. Communities across the West Coast woke up …